Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[James Blackwell]

>
> James Blackwell wrote:
>> Anselm Lingnau:
>> > Personally I would much rather see arch »librified« rather than endowed 
>> > with a 
>> > VM and programming language all of its own (a Tcl/Tk binding would be 
>> > nice). 
>> > However, since Tom says what will happen, I just hope that the VM changes 
>> > will also indeed accelerate the librification.
>> 
>> Heh. Tom isn't omnipotent. Arch development has grown to the size that
>> Tom can no longer arbitrarily enforce decisions he's made. These days,
>> he has to work the same way that everyone else does -- by building
>> consensus.
>

Samium wrote:
> Hey -- i`m pretty sure _he_ decides what goes to _his_ tree, right?

Of course he does but you're missing an important point. One of arch's
main intentions is decentralization. 

Let's hypothesize for a moment. Hypothetically speaking, Tom goes
bonkers and decides that from now on, instead of using english, arch
would use piglatin. This most unpopular decision would result in the
other significant developers to start following a different tree. Tom
would be left alone.

So, in order to make this transition to piglatin, he would have to
convince the group that moving to piglatin is the right choice.



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